iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social · 4h

This isn't my giraffe, in fact it isn't anybody's. It's what's currently popular on Instagram, a 'making project', done by AI. A knife (upside down) cuts right through the drawing, ears get stuck over the eyes . . . then attached to its arse, finally, it's 10 times the size. 🙄 #edusky

An AI generated art project showing the 'making of a cardboard giraffe' . . . except there are lots of strange errors, which apparently, no-one has noticed?

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not admitting I'm ridiculously suggestible but I was reading the FT magazine article on Napa Valley on the train home and the first thing I did on getting in was open a bottle of wine

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 6h

'We've only got kids' sticking plasters' said the pharmacist administering my flu jab. Me (overjoyed): 'I got an ELEPHANT!' Her (wearily): Everyone has been SO EXCITED when they get a good one'

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 13h

Joke's on me. I thought the War On Cars was a real and much-needed redressing of the balance. Never imagined it was a faked up excuse for drivers to flatten pedestrians online as well as on the roads

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*for his business **because he said yes I can have a shot (although I have had a license for nearly 40 years I only recently tried driving a car again after a 30 year gap so this is very trusting of him)

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Being an adult is generally so short on the 'being able to do whatever I choose' I imagined as a child but occasionally you hear something that revives that hope. My friend just bought himself a forklift truck* and the small me who loved her yellow Tonka digger with her whole heart is SO EXCITED**

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🧵 Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan". He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025" He was, of course, still wrong... 1/30

Screenshot of LBC tweet:

How much has the UK actually spent on condoms in Pakistan?

Henry Riley is sceptical about Matt Goodwin's numbers so the reform politician calls himself to be fact-checked live on air.

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Muting that programme you all like. Had already, but the celebrity version escaped containment. Curating my experience, polishing my online bubble, all those good things

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Leith Theatre @leiththeatre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Celebrate Halloween in Leith’s hidden treasure! 🎃 Explore Leith Theatre’s spooky 1930s halls & discover its storied past. Evening tour Thu 29 Oct 18:30 & family-friendly tour Fri 30 Oct 15:30 Ghosts not guaranteed 👀👻 🎟️https://www.leiththeatre.co.uk/upcoming-events #Halloween #LeithTheatre

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Glasses case? Oyster shucking glove? Tool holster? Depends how soft/strong/pliable (I realise I used question marks but that was to indicate tentative suggestions and absolutely not in any way *questions*)

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'What are you staring at?' 'Waiting for that heron to catch a fish' 'You could be there for ages. See you on my way back!' Worth it, cheerful dogwalking lady, 100%. Pleased as if I'd caught the fish myself

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📣 Applications are open for a Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities PhD Internship at Edinburgh Printmakers! Find out more information and apply on SGSAH's website: f.mtr.cool/7yms05q8yv

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

All sounds so awful. I'm still cross they've removed or hidden the option to list iPlayer films alphabetically rather than navigate via dubious genre labels (if anyone can find it again, would be grateful for a pointer). Your genre classification isn't my genre classification, online dudes

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's that time of year when I once again find myself admiring toddlers' autumn fashion Chunky boots, fat cords, sturdy jackets in gorgeous colours and some very natty hats Forget the catwalk, it's the playpark that's chic

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

*click to view responses, find all relevant explanations already provided, cheer Bluesky users for thoroughness, go outside for real blue skies and sunshine*

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So sad to hear that the iconic, trailblazing, Apollo 11 moon landing software engineering lead, Margaret Hamilton, is no longer with us. Love this image of her, standing next to a print out of the software that landed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Amstrong on the moon! 👩‍🔬🔭🛰️🧪 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A woman looking very cool in a 70's dress standing next to a massive pile of very thick books

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is one of the most terrifying interviews I’ve ever seen. The slow reveal of the mental landscape at work here. If you don’t end up thinking we should stop these people with as much force as we can muster, I’d be very surprised. youtu.be/lnLDjXy2kRA?...

youtu.be

Jacob Coxon On Witnessing the Existential Threat of AI from the Inside | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Cyrenians @cyrenians.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let your tastebuds travel to Peru at our Peruvian Masterclass with Mercedes on 17 October (6pm-9pm). Learn to make traditional Aji de Gallina and sweet Picarones in a fun, hands-on evening. Every booking helps tackle homelessness. Book now: buff.ly/WOV55vL

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No doubt all the people who printed, posted or broadcast this now disproved story respect their readers/viewers/listeners/followers enough to correct the record asap… www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left

TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Obviously laughable. But a reminder of how these people would behave in power: Financially benefiting the journalists and pollsters who do their bidding, legally pursuing those who do not.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FUCK IT. Let's give away 3 more signed paperbacks of my latest novel, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter! You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated!

My latest novel Everything Will Swallow You, next to the sea, where some of it takes place.

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Mardoch @mardoch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

bro i need amazon to fuck off straight to hell with their delivery drones if you've never heard one before, imagine someone is flying a leaf blower over your house. now imagine there are multiple leafblowers flying over your house routinely welcome to hell. your fast deliveries are not worth it

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of COURSE THEY WOULD COME FOR WIKIPEDIA .. “It’s just the scraping” No you utter miscreants. AI as designed by the current closed models CAN NOT ALLOW OPEN SOURCE KNOWLEDGE it needs your methods, it needs best performers out of the frame

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(my brother having died of a brain tumour, I REALLY resent that being the lazy explanation)

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm also pretty good at mentally cutting out the bits that spoil my enjoyment, so I can usually ignore a sucky ending. What casts retrospective disappointment for me is when desperate grasping for new plots entails a character getting a total personality transplant to make it work

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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Applications close this Saturday (10 October)📣 If you work with pupils with additional support needs, don't miss the chance to gain a £400 grant 👇

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Travis Louie @travislouie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The seasonal October drawings begin

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rogue @roguechocolate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing that's so wild about the SV idea of dronifying everything is drones are fucking loud and annoying. We're really going to tolerate the lived landscape sounding like the inside of a fucking hornet nest?

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's appalling. Not sure if I remember correctly but I think the coastline *was* ours (assets put in public ownership after bailing out royal debt, which was when the annual stipend started) but given back to the crown after Charles's lobbying in those infamous 'black spider letters'. Timely, huh?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It wasn't FJM it was John Grant, and it wasn't a new single it was a live session from 2024, but apart from that I was bang on. (Belatedly looked up Afrodeutsche's yesterday show track listing). Same skeezey feeling though

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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muirneag.bsky.social @muirneag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Coming to the Scottish Storytelling Centre this month!

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

(and not in a good way). Same feeling I get from Renoir's paintings. What *is* it, I wonder?

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh no there's a new Father John Misty single that BBC6Music will inevitably put on heavy rotation, so that's another thing (on top of the news) I'll be flinging myself across the room to turn the radio off for. Don't *dislike* his songs exactly, they creep me tf out so much I want to escape my skin

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Agree need to rein in the data centre rush but it's not only rural communities that need protecting, they're unsuitable for cities too, hoovering up resources better used elsewhere and making even *more* neighbours miserable in urban areas. As an extractive industry, should be treated like mines

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are you asking, or just suggesting conversation topics if we happen to meet? If offering, screwball comedies?

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lost a fair chunk of a beautiful morning because this was so fascinating but it's time to go out into the sunshine

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm looking to hire a Tokyo-based Japanese interpreter/research guide (fluent in Mandarin and/or English, preferably Mandarin) in preparation for a research trip in late Oct/early Nov. Looking for: help navigating a university museum/archives and finding some Meiji era-related sites/maps/photos/etc.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's been 7 months since I gave evidence at the UKGov select committee hearing, on the policy changes at UKRI which have had a catastrophic impact on funding for UK astronomy and particle physics. When asked if we thought we were the "canary in the coal mine", we said yes..... we weren't wrong. 🧪🔭⚛️

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not to oversimplify but maybe it’s not surprising the two grossest abusers of 21st C English football’s financial regulations were clubs owned by people used to turning resource wealth into political power, linked to or parts of authoritarian regimes with equal disregard for international law.

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